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Following are three key races:
WYOMING REPUBLICAN CONGRESSIONAL PRIMARY
Trump has targeted dozens of foes within the Republican Party,
with special ire for the handful of Republican lawmakers who
voted to impeach him last year for inciting the Jan. 6 Capitol
riot. Now his highest-profile target, Wyoming's U.S.
Representative Liz Cheney, appears set to lose her seat. Cheney,
who is facing Trump-endorsed lawyer Harriet Hageman in a
Republican primary on Tuesday, voted to impeach Trump and has
helped lead a congressional probe into the Capitol riot. A poll
conducted by the University of Wyoming's Wyoming Survey and
Analysis Center July 25-Aug. 6 showed Hageman with a commanding
57% to 28% lead over Cheney.
ALASKA U.S. SENATE SEAT PRIMARY
Trump has also targeted U.S. Senator Lisa Murkowski of Alaska,
who cast one of the few Republican votes to convict the former
president in a Senate trial last year following his impeachment.
Murkowski, however, appears to have a decent chance of beating
her Trump-backed challenger, Kelly Tshibaka, a former state
administration commissioner. Both Murkowski and Tshibaka will
likely advance from Tuesday's primary contest, which under new
state rules will send four candidates to the November general
election regardless of their political parties. An early-July
poll by Alaska Survey Research gave Murkowski a modest lead over
Tshibaka and the other candidates expected to be on the ballot
in November.
ALASKA U.S. HOUSE SEAT SPECIAL ELECTION AND PRIMARY
The power of Trump's endorsements could take a ding in Alaska's
special election for the state's sole U.S. House seat, which has
been vacant since Representative Don Young's death in March.
Sarah Palin, a former Alaska governor and the 2008 Republican
vice presidential nominee, received Trump's endorsement in
April. But her path to victory narrowed after the Republican
Party's state leadership committee endorsed rival candidate and
business executive Nick Begich.
The Alaska Survey Research poll showed Begich with a slight lead
over Palin in a three-person field that also includes Democrat
Mary Peltola. The poll asked respondents to rank candidates by
preference, in line with Alaska's new "ranked choice" voting
rules. The rules could require multiple rounds of vote-counting,
so a winner might not be known on election night.
Palin and Begich will also be on the ballot on Tuesday for the
primary ahead of the November contest for the same U.S. House
seat.
(Reporting by Jason Lange; Editing by Colleen Jenkins and
Alistair Bell)
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